Notices by 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 35

@khird #1 is an issue regardless of tagging. If your a new user you have no followers, so you wont get many people who see what you post regardless. With that said, there is no reason to think you **need** tags to be seen. Many users would likely still view a feed that is inclusive of all posts and only **exclude** tags rather than use an exclusive feed and select **inclusive** tags. Ultimately, the power is with the user what they want to see. just as some users view an unfiltered federated fee now.

#2 Yes people will try. Any intelligently designed system will, however, prevent that. Stackoverflow uses the system I provided and because it is well designed prevents issue #2, not to mention prevents issue #1 with its designs as well.

@design_RG I'll attempt it

@design_RG I can attempt to get that in, do you know what versions the patch works for? Does it include 3.0+?

@crackurbones I think that may be possible soon in the next upgrade, thats what I hear

Just messing around.

Just messing around.

@stolas Some people might say they wont contribute to hashtags, but I disagree if the interface is easy enough that you can select the most popular ones, see a list, or just enter your own easily, I think people would see it as the same as liking or even reboosting a post. Hell we may find certain hashtags like #like replacing the need for a like button irself. Perhaps even have a #boost hash that behaves like boosting (it gets a high priority in your friends feed by default)

Mastodon Feature Suggestion

I had an idea for a way to improve and balance between the concerns of both moderation and free-speech. Its a bit radical but I think in theory it could work

Imagine mastodon, or something similar, but where a user can no add hashtags to either their posts or their profile, only the ordinary text of their choosing.

Then hashtags can be added or removed by other users via a consensus mechanism where people can vote for or promote hashtags or suggest their own (not unlike how stackoverflow does it).

Then provide all the tools for users to be able to filter out certain hashtags or promote them in their own feed.

This would allow the community to vote on what is hate speech or what is not, or what is conservative vs liberal, or any other relevant quality to a post or person. Then a user can say things like "Any post that is voted by 70% or more people to be hate speech i want filtered from my feed"..

If done well this could create a system where users are able to completely moderate a system for themselves with minimal effort.

#mastoadmin #mastodon #censorship #freespeech

Mastodon PATCH suggestion:

I had an idea for a way to improve and balance between the concerns of both moderation and free-speech. Its a bit radical but I think in theory it could work

Imagine mastodon, or something similar, but where a user can no add hashtags to either their posts or their profile, only the ordinary text of their choosing.

Then hashtags can be added or removed by other users via a consensus mechanism where people can vote for or promote hashtags or suggest their own (not unlike how stackoverflow does it).

Then provide all the tools for users to be able to filter out certain hashtags or promote them in their own feed.

This would allow the community to vote on what is hate speech or what is not, or what is conservative vs liberal, or any other relevant quality to a post or person. Then a user can say things like "Any post that is voted by 70% or more people to be hate speech i want filtered from my feed"..

If done well this could create a system where users are able to completely moderate a system for themselves with minimal effort.

#mastoadmin #mastodon #censorship #freespeech

So I've been thinking about what work I want to do next on QOTO that might be accessible given my current busy schedule. These are the TODOs I'd like to do int he immediate future:

1) Fix character limit on mobile devices.

2) upgrade server to latest source

3) Create a static website to replace the default mastodon one that explains QOTO's mastodon instance but also our other services and directs links for them..

#3 may mean more of an edit to Mastodon than you guys realize as right now if you go to the root domain and you are logged in it will redirect you to the social media interface. We cant change the subdomain without breaking federation. So means I'll have to edit the mastodon source code again most likely.

So apparently the joke about Having a Bernie Man festival I told is a real thing. Only thing they are missing is the giant pile of money they burn to reflect the embodiment of Bernie's platform.

http://berniemanfestival.com/

@fluffy

The block part of the comment was directed more at FSE than blobcat.. blobcat is more about shitposting it seems. Not that there is anything wrong with that. But it does lend to people having alt accounts more.

I do not myself approve of instances that block FSE or blobcat. But FSE is certainly highly blocked, sadly.

@sjw

@fluffy

I think it varies greatly on the way you use the server and the sort of account you use. On servers like blob.cat and FSE I would imagine the vast majority of users have alts because of the shit-posting highly-blocked nature of those servers. However on most general purpose instances in the fediverse like M/S, QOTO, etc the vast majority of users are active in only one place I'd say.

@sjw

@fluffy

There is a big difference between non-posting bot accounts purchased for fake followers that make up some 90% of many users follower count, and what you describe.

Simply put someone being active in two places occasionally (no idea what percentage it is but its a minority) is not a "fake" user. It simply means there is a bit of an overlap.

REgardless though if your talking about individual breathing humans then yes the number will be a bit smaller for some people here. But its a small minority compared to twitter where it seems to be a rather large minority on many accounts.

I should also say your 10% expiernce is likely unique to you. I can only think of one or two people in my follower count that I am aware of that are alts of users on another account. The actual number may be higher but its not something I personally witness very often.

@sjw

@fluffy I think the difference comes from two main factors.

1) larger word count here, so no need for people to talk in useless sound bytes, it encourages real dialogue.

2) Twitter is something like 90%+ fake accounts I forget the exact number but it was huge. Which drives people into an artificial popularity contest. Here follower count is genuine and often not something people care too much about.

@fluffy If I compare the way people act with their follower count across twitter in here your assertion would not seem to hold true. Many of the most high profile accounts here on the fediverse (myself included) do not seem to behave that way compared to people on twitter with less followers.

@georgia Dutch babies are the best babies!

@fluffy While it may be counter culture to blame, or any other number of factors. Who or what is to blame is less of concern to me than what is or is not. The truth is, the qualities I describe are inherent to twitter regardless of blame, and are far less evident in the fediverse or Facebook. Reasons to avoid the platform even if the company isnt to blame for the effect.

Yea people being "fake", in the sense of trying to put on a political front (usually called being professional) is something you can see in any context. But it is far worse in twitter than other mediums. Its a matter of degrees not absolutes.

As for identity. You can pick any identity on twitter you wish, just as you can here. Neither platform requires you to identify yourself.

@fluffy Thats exactly what I'm talking about though. Most people who are there arent there to be themselves they are there to sell themselves as a brand, or are a brand themselves.

The academic on twitter sound more like politicians in how they conduct themselves than living breathing humans. Their mindset is to get followers and behave in a way that will make them popular, not in a way that actually reflects their personality.

Thats the very issue to me, it feels like one big advertisement, sometimes of your personal brand sometimes not. But never people being themselves really.